ORIGIN

Track Champ: 1958 Alfa Romeo Spider

This 1958 Alfa Romeo Spider is shown below at Riverside Raceway in 1975. The car is now in more finished and was last raced with VARA around 2000 but has been well maintained since. It has a vintage legal 1300cc engine is said to be the VARA F-Production champion from 1984. Find it here on the AlfaBB in San Diego for $30k including an unspecified Ford transporter.

The car looks a good bit different now than in the photo above, mainly thanks to a driver-only windscreen, Panasport wheels, and a peaked roll-bar. The red is a natural choice for this model and the numbering is perfectly understated.

The engine is fed by twin Webers and dyno sheets are available. Presentation is very clean and the external oil filter is nicely plumbed. Our only change might be to swap out the two plastic catch tanks for some custom aluminum units.

It would be interesting to trace the car’s history to its earliest races. The seller claims that no documentation is available to substantiate the racing history, but we suspect there must be photos if it was so often a winner. By the time that 1975 photo was taken it looks like the car had already been substantially modified, so maybe the track prep was much earlier. At this point further history only really matters for entry into the picky events, where the new owner may or may not want to tread anyway! This is a very cool Alfa. Sell or barter the transporter away and it is a downright bargain.